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Public bug reported:

[ Impact ]

 * `retry` has become a dependency of `autopkgtest`, and `autopkgtest` has an SRU exception to get updated to older releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#autopkgtest
Since `autopkgtest` is in `main`, `retry` needs to be too, which led to an MIR described in bug 2076381.
The MIR got approved, and `retry` has already been promoted on Oracular, but it seems impossible to promote it on Jammy and Noble because it's not in the `-updates` pockets (see comment #9 on the MIR bug).

I'm thus submitting a no change rebuild SRU to Jammy and Noble, so that
the MIR can complete.

[ Test Plan ]

 * `retry` has some dep8 test, even already on the Jammy version, and
those should be green.

 * Manual verification that the `retry` package installs correctly, and the provided binary runs fine:
```
sudo apt install retry
retry --help  # should display help
retry --until=success -- false  # should run forever
retry --until=success --delay "1,2,4,8,16,32,64" -- false  # should repeat forever with increasing delay until 64 seconds
```

[ Where problems could occur ]

 * For some reason the newly rebuilt binary could be buggy because of
some compilation issue. It's a fairly simple single C file, so I expect
if that one doesn't work, there might be issues for other packages too.

 * If `retry` breaks for some reason, that might also break its
dependencies. `rdepends` shows that only `debci`, and soon to be
`autopkgtest` depend on `retry`. That makes the list pretty small, and
only packages used by developers (and actually used by my team for
`autopkgtest`), so we should spot the issue pretty quickly and we will
need to work on it, which should mitigate having long standing unfixed
bugs.

[ Other Info ]

* Nothing that I can think of.

** Affects: retry (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: retry (Ubuntu Jammy)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: retry (Ubuntu Noble)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  [SRU] No change rebuild for MIR

Status in retry package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in retry source package in Jammy:
  New
Status in retry source package in Noble:
  New

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

   * `retry` has become a dependency of `autopkgtest`, and `autopkgtest` has an SRU exception to get updated to older releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#autopkgtest
  Since `autopkgtest` is in `main`, `retry` needs to be too, which led to an MIR described in bug 2076381.
  The MIR got approved, and `retry` has already been promoted on Oracular, but it seems impossible to promote it on Jammy and Noble because it's not in the `-updates` pockets (see comment #9 on the MIR bug).

  I'm thus submitting a no change rebuild SRU to Jammy and Noble, so
  that the MIR can complete.

  [ Test Plan ]

   * `retry` has some dep8 test, even already on the Jammy version, and
  those should be green.

   * Manual verification that the `retry` package installs correctly, and the provided binary runs fine:
  ```
  sudo apt install retry
  retry --help  # should display help
  retry --until=success -- false  # should run forever
  retry --until=success --delay "1,2,4,8,16,32,64" -- false  # should repeat forever with increasing delay until 64 seconds
  ```

  [ Where problems could occur ]

   * For some reason the newly rebuilt binary could be buggy because of
  some compilation issue. It's a fairly simple single C file, so I
  expect if that one doesn't work, there might be issues for other
  packages too.

   * If `retry` breaks for some reason, that might also break its
  dependencies. `rdepends` shows that only `debci`, and soon to be
  `autopkgtest` depend on `retry`. That makes the list pretty small, and
  only packages used by developers (and actually used by my team for
  `autopkgtest`), so we should spot the issue pretty quickly and we will
  need to work on it, which should mitigate having long standing unfixed
  bugs.

  [ Other Info ]

  * Nothing that I can think of.

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